Cardano’s decentralized exchange has announced a new feature to draw in liquidity. Called “organic APR,” the feature increases token emissions as more liquidity is put into the pool, according to a Twitter thread from the team. It will be introduced into a single pool on Dec. 8 and may be offered in other pools later. The new feature has elicited praise from some Cardano users, but others have expressed dissatisfaction with it. We have developed something special for you! Organic APR ‍ Introducing Organic APR in one sentence: The more people contribute to a pool, the higher the APR Why …

According to a new proposal dated Dec. 6, Jared Grey, CEO of decentralized exchange Sushiswap (SUSHI), disclosed that the project's Treasury has less than 1.5 years of runaway left, and the "significant deficit in the treasury threatens Sushi's operational viability, requiring an immediate remedy." Grey explained that Sushiswap's annualized operating expenses amounted to roughly $9 million in October, however, that has since been reduced to around $5 million. "We made the reduction possible by renegotiating infrastructure contracts, scaling back underperforming or superfluous dependencies, and instituting a budget freeze on non-critical personnel and infrastructure." To remedy the situation, Grey proposed setting …

As the BNB Chain-based protocol Ankr was exploited and the hacker dumped Ankr Reward Bearing Staked BNB (aBNBc) tokens, a trader took advantage of the price discrepancies to turn $2,879 into $15.5 million. As previously reported by Cointelegraph, security firm Beosin suggested that the multi-million dollar exploit may have come from vulnerabilities in the smart contract code and compromised private keys due to a technical upgrade. Then, the hacker minted and dumped 20 trillion aBNBc tokens, significantly lowering the price of aBNBc. As this happened, a trader reacted quickly and took advantage of an opportunity. Going through on-chain data, analysis …

The collapse of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has raised many concerns over unregulated centralized platforms. Investors are now coming to question how safe it is to keep one’s funds on these exchanges and have voiced grave concerns about centralized decision-making without any checks. FTX held one billion in a customer’s fund and was found to be using the customer-deposited crypto assets to mitigate its own business losses. Furthermore, a recent report suggests that the downfall of numerous crypto exchanges over the last decade has permanently taken 1.2 million Bitcoin (BTC) — almost 6% of all Bitcoin — out of …

The ongoing crypto bear market has proven itself to be a builders market as investments continue to find projects with promise. Onomy, a Cosmos blockchain-based ecosystem, just secured million from investors for the development of its new protocol. The project merges decentralized finance (DeFi) and the foreign exchange market (FX) to bring the latter on-chain. According to the developers, the latest funding round garnered $10 million from big industry players such as Bitfinex, Ava Labs, the Maker Foundation and CMS Holdings among others. Lalo Bazzi, co-founder of Onomy, says the underlying goal of building a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with …

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The FTX collapse has created a sense of uncertainty among large and retail investors alike, who are not very sure whether they should keep their funds on centralized exchanges or not. The dilemma has led to a major uptick among DeFi protocols and decentralized exchanges. DeFi protocols and decentralized exchange (DEX) platforms gained some momentum in the aftermath of the FTX implosion. A new report from Delphi Digital suggests DEX platforms gained 24% volume …

DeFi is supposed to be the great recalibrator of finance. It is supposed to offer people a better alternative to traditional centralized financial tools and services. Recently, we've all seen how centralized services can result in catastrophic losses for users due to lack of transparency. However, as it stands now, using DeFi protocols can be extremely time-consuming, confusing and ineffective. Many of the problems in the space can be traced to the way it has developed. There are now a multitude of networks that each have their own ecosystems and platforms with which they integrated. While this has led to …

DeFi is rife with great ideas capable of rebalancing financial power dynamics. However, so far, these ideas have proven hard to implement in sustainable and convenient ways. Take the DEX, or decentralized exchange — this is a cornerstone of DeFi and a place where users are able to trade with each other without sacrificing control over their funds or having to pay exorbitant fees. On paper, it sounds ideal. But when you look at the major DEXes, they are not convenient. DEXes have become synonymous with high transaction fees, long wait times, low network interoperability and manipulation issues. Enter Polkadex. …

A week after the fallout from the FTX and Alameda chaos some on-chain data points are interesting to observe. Although record amounts of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) volume are leaving the exchanges, not all decentralized applications (DApps) and protocols have shown growth, mainly due to reliance on FTX and Alameda. DeFi earnings highlight positive revenue for some protocols According to Token Terminal’s earnings leaderboard, in the last 7-days, three protocols had revenue above $1 million. Ethereum led the on-chain earnings with over $8.5 million total, a sign of strong post-Merge fundamentals. OpenSea was a distant second place to Ethereum, …

According to 1inch, users' gas costs for swaps will be at least 10% lower than its previous offerings in the DEX segment, thereby, making swapping activity on the Ethereum network more profitable for its users. In the Router v5, 1inch estimated that swaps will be approximately 5% more gas efficient than in the previous version, and 10% more gas efficient, compared to the second best performing player in the DEX segment. New features and improvements made to the Router v5 from previous routers include; a new interaction logic, pre-/post-interactions, and an improved smart contract error processing system. The new edition …

Bear markets are a good time to reflect — and a question that isn't asked often enough is this: Why do crypto projects have such a high failure rate… and how can they scale to boost their chances of success? That's a topic we're going to dive into during Cointelegraph's latest ask-me-anything session on YouTube, where we'll be joined by Qonetum Finance. CEO and CTO Yoda Regev will be with our very own Rachel Wolfson to discuss the challenges facing fledgling projects that are trying to get off the ground. While CoinMarketCap data shows that thousands of token projects have …

Delving into the world of cryptocurrencies can be extremely intimidating for beginners. On day one, you're confronted with thousands of different coins — and each claims to have their own specific use case. Understanding how blockchain technology works is an incredibly steep learning curve too, and all of that comes before you've even made a purchase. Now, one website has the ambition of becoming a lighthouse in stormy seas for newcomers to the crypto market — giving them the information they need to explore the space with confidence. ClearCryptos offers a plethora of curated educational content — covering everything from …